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Wrenn and Realmbreaker

Legendary Planeswalker — Wrenn

Lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color."
+1: Up to one target land you control becomes a 3/3 Elemental creature with vigilance, hexproof, and haste until your next turn. It's still a land.
−2: Mill three cards. You may put a permanent card from among the milled cards into your hand.
−7: You get an emblem with "You may play lands and cast permanent spells from your graveyard."

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{G}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
mythic
Set
March of the Machine
Price
$6.02
EDHREC rank
#2580
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Wrenn and Realmbreaker card art
Wrenn and Realmbreaker puts every land in your graveyard back to work and lets any permanent tap for mana of any color — that's a ramp engine, a fixing engine, and a combo enabler on one three-mana planeswalker. Pair it with Springheart Nantuko for self-sustaining token loops or slot it into a Carth the Lion shell and the loyalty counters pile up fast enough to hit the ultimate in two activations.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Carth the Lion

Carth the Lion

60.7% of decks · synergy 0.59

Carth the Lion runs Wrenn and Realmbreaker in over 60% of decks because Carth's passive — searching up a planeswalker when a creature you control dies and adding an extra loyalty counter on each activation — means Wrenn enters on five loyalty and threatens an ultimate as early as turn five.

02
Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir

Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir

23.6% of decks · synergy 0.23

Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir draws a card on each opponent's turn whenever you draw on that turn, and Wrenn and Realmbreaker's minus ability returning lands from the graveyard to the battlefield can trigger that draw condition while simultaneously rebuilding your mana base after a board wipe.

03
Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider

Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider

21.8% of decks · synergy 0.21

Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider doubles every loyalty counter Wrenn and Realmbreaker receives and halves every counter opponents gain, meaning Wrenn enters with six loyalty, activates twice to hit the game-ending ultimate, and opponents can never race it with their own walkers.

04
Jyoti, Moag Ancient

Jyoti, Moag Ancient

22.3% of decks · synergy 0.21

Jyoti, Moag Ancient generates Forest tokens when lands enter the battlefield tapped, and Wrenn and Realmbreaker's minus ability puts lands onto the battlefield tapped — each recursion activation chains directly into a Forest token, turning graveyard lands into a steady stream of 1/1s.

05
Toph, the First Metalbender

Toph, the First Metalbender

17.3% of decks · synergy 0.16

Toph, the First Metalbender wants as many land activations as possible each turn, and Wrenn and Realmbreaker's static ability letting any permanent tap for any color of mana means every artifact and creature on board suddenly counts as a land activation for Toph's trigger.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Wrenn and Realmbreaker earns its reputation — three mana for universal mana fixing, graveyard recursion, and a game-ending ultimate is exactly the kind of value engine multiplayer rewards. In Modern and Pioneer, a three-mana planeswalker that doesn't protect itself immediately faces a much harder road; the formats are fast enough that opponents can kill it before the minus ability pays off more than once. Legacy is theoretically legal but the card doesn't slot into any established archetype — the formats that want planeswalkers at that cost already have better options. Oathbreaker is the sleeper hit: as the signature spell slot or in a loyalty-stacking shell, Wrenn and Realmbreaker can take over a game faster than in Commander because starting loyalty totals matter more with fewer opponents.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Wrenn and Realmbreaker's closest budget proxy is Chromatic Lantern — it provides the same universal color fixing for three mana and costs under a dollar, though it does nothing for graveyard recursion and generates no loyalty-based value over time. If the recursion half matters more than the fixing, Crucible of Worlds does that job at a higher price point but as an artifact that's harder to remove, while Ramunap Excavator covers the same effect on a creature body for around two dollars.

Price Context

Current price

$6.02 mid tier

At $6.02, Wrenn and Realmbreaker sits in mid-tier territory — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate inclusion but cheap enough that it belongs in any Commander deck that can support its color identity. The combination of universal fixing, graveyard recursion, and a legitimate ultimate on a three-mana planeswalker justifies the price tag for green-based multicolor builds.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.